Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to engage with (a) primary care networks and (b) other local practitioners on the effect of NHS reorganisation on the ability of those practitioners to deliver services.

NHS England and NHS Improvement engages regularly with Primary Care Networks (PCNs) through the NHS Confederation. NHS Confederation carried out an engagement exercise with clinical and care professionals in March 2021 which NHS England participated in and considered their feedback in the development of guidance of the role of primary care in integrated systems.